$77M Powerball lottery ticket to expire Monday

What would you do if you won a $77 million lottery jackpot? What would you do if you didn't discover that you had the winning ticket until AFTER the deadline for claiming the prize?

That's the scenario that could play out next week, because the 180-day window for the Georgia Lottery player who won the June 29 Powerball jackpot to come forward slams shut on Monday.

That winning ticket, with the numbers 24, 30, 45, 57, and 59, with Powerball number 26, was sold at the Pilot Travel Center truck stop along I-20 just inside the state from Alabama, and so far, no one has come forward to stake a claim to the huge jackpot.

Since players have just 180 days to claim any prize from online games, next Tuesday will be too late to claim the money, according to Georgia Lottery spokeswoman Tandi Reddick.

"Unclaimed Powerball jackpot prize funds are returned proportionately to each participating state based on that state's sales for the particular drawing," Reddick said.

She said that in Georgia, unclaimed prize money goes back into the prize pool for future games and for special prize promotions, and is ultimately paid out to players.

Multimillion-dollar jackpots would normally need to be claimed at Georgia Lottery headquarters in downtown Atlanta or one of the seven district lottery offices around the state, but if you happen to find that $77 million jackpot-winning ticket after Thursday, don't go to one of those offices, because they will be closed Friday through Monday for Christmas.

"The winner can claim at the Georgia Lottery kiosks at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, located in the baggage claim areas of the North and South terminals," Reddick said.

Those kiosks will be open from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Monday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

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Way back up in them dadgum hills, son!United StatesMember #73904April 28, 200914903 PostsOffline

Posted: December 22, 2011, 5:01 pm - IP Logged

Just inside the Alabama line? Ain't no tellin' where that ticket is. Alabama peoples is crazy. Lotta fun though. I knowed some good ol' boys down there, Mississippi too. We used to tear it up down there, lawd have mersay, whole lotta shakin' goin' on. We'd be sippin' on shine til our heads got swole. 90 miles an hour down a dead end road, slinging gravel ever which a way, shotguns blastin' the dadgum roadsigns, yeeee haaaa!

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"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"

I am unhappy to say I'm very familiar with that truck stop... Unfortunately that is a truck stop along the I-20 interstate which is a major travel stop along a busy travel route extending from texas to south carloina. the location of that store is actually on the stretch of interstate leading into and out of atlanta about 3 miles east of the border with alabama. that ticket, if not in the trash, is in some truck traveling the country.

I am unhappy to say I'm very familiar with that truck stop... Unfortunately that is a truck stop along the I-20 interstate which is a major travel stop along a busy travel route extending from texas to south carloina. the location of that store is actually on the stretch of interstate leading into and out of atlanta about 3 miles east of the border with alabama. that ticket, if not in the trash, is in some truck traveling the country.

And I imagine it is a truck driver who was getting by on $400 per week. Or it could have been a family traveling with a RV full of pets and one of the dogs ate the winning ticket. In any case, it is just too bad I wasn't driving along that corridor at that time. I guarantee you I would never let a jackpot ticket expire without me claiming the prize.

Get MONEY!!! Winning a JACKPOT lottery is all the HOPE and CHANGE I desire!!! NOW give me MONEY!

The guy who won the presidency in 2008 really won the lottery...he is now millions richer, travels in first class style, and even has a staff that would be the envy of the richest Powerball winner (she has a staff of 2). Every night he goes to sleep, he probably plays the close of Dave Chappelle's Show: I'm rich beyatch!